egypt gets a new constitution is the islamist back document when the strong support from the public but deep divisions remain between opposition and government supporters over the course of the country's taken. israel approves twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem the expansion coming despite international condemnation and warnings over the peace process with the palestinians. and as christmas presents are unwrapped across the world the jury's out on whether euro zone leaders behaved well enough for santa to answer their wishes will brussels sprout wonders or not

r.t. tries to figure out what's in the bag for you. seven am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story it's been confirmed that egypt's new constitution has been passed with a majority sixty three point eight percent voting yes opponents have vowed to kin tinu the fight against adopting the islamist leaning charter though egypt's witnessed weeks of violence with a two stage referendum a sowing deep division between supporters and opponents of the country's president mohamed morsi morsi says an act in the new constitution quickly will bring stability and a chance to focus on fixing the economy but those against he is the misleading charter have to try the referendum as fundamentally illegitimate dr omer sure from the institute of arab and islamic studies things that neither of the charter nor

the vote break democratic rules. this is the first. constitution that you have to physically and not. and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to . festered so it empowers other son just as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. the democratic elections and it's gone from the fog used to be to become the majority what would happen if these islamist parties could not get on the phone this is the bulk have to get into about the security about the going on the conditions i think what will happen the people who will vote against them if you looked at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections seventy percent voted for this the most buzz of. and independent elections at all and fifty one percent of the vote is declining and going down mainly because they are not for

them and opposition anymore they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just promise was the end not delivered so now people have said expectations and they can control the politicians by voting but middle east history professor lawrence davidson says the opposition has a reason to be concerned i think that the opposition barring democracy differently than the islam. if you look at them ocracy in the way that you can be in the united they. can you're a. constitution the vision the market is big we guarantee the right minority on the other hand not kind of the kind of constitutional guarantee. sort of. unusual or not normal lifestyle it's not going to be something that should realize we're just down to so it's the

rights of the minorities enough to worry some of the liberals. and they have a right to be worried. israel's given the green light to building another twelve hundred new settlements in east jerusalem on the land considered illegally occupied under international law this is in addition to the already approved construction of thousands of homes in the west bank retaliation over the palestinians u.n. status upgrade our middle east correspondent paula sleep has more. what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred secure homes in globe which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and certainly we've witnessed that kind of criticism

and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks ago for upgraded statehood there have been some five and a half thousand new secure homes announced in terms of what the israelis were building israel has undergone as i say strong international criticism for these announcements with many in the international community voicing their intense displeasure at these actions by the jewish state in fact the israel's closest ally which is the united states in a rare and blunt move said it is well was engaging in to quote a pattern of provocative action by continuing with settlement expansion this plans domestically the kind of statements that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is making with his proposal and plan to go ahead with the settlement building is current favorite among the israeli left certainly he is appealing to

right wing voters and according to the polls he is likely to win the next parliamentary election so these kind of statements are playing into an election that is safe to happen about a month from now at the same time has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you receive them is the eternal capital of the state of israel and will continue to build them a united to sell them he says if the place is a wide national agreement and certainly this is the kind of sentiment that is feeding into the israeli public and then there is of course some. school of thought that points back to two thousand and five when the israelis withdrew from settlements in the gaza strip with some critics asking whether or not all of the fear at the moment will ultimately lead to the same kind of conclusion the question mark over whether or not in the future israel will have to withdraw from the sentiments that it is announcing today it's planning on building currently around a half a million people live in israeli settlements but peace campaigner dr ron pundak maintains israel wouldn't have to relocate all the settlers if

a territorial agreement is reached with about. settlements is definitely within the book of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only elevation of the discourse from the prime minister and around of the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not realities and practices on the ground up to five hundred thousand are being divided at all two hundred thousand total with the in jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side and the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we agreed delineate the borders of jews then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close that just sent to the green line would become part of is well within the exchange of territories and

there is a and my know we care for approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offered and shown in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between us and peace will be standing one hundred thousand is where it's which we'll have to go over and be accepted and we. were compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes within the national interest of the majority of israelis. remember for more you can always log on to our website r t dot com burial find plenty more including how the u.s. is about to commence a new large scale military deployment this coming year washington sending troops to as many as thirty five african countries more on that on line plus. the catholic church giving believers and culture lovers a real christmas present find out what the multimillion euro are databases for.

throughout the day the jolly fat man has been making his deliveries around the globe and hopefully you got what you wanted from sad of this christmas but there's been more window shopping and people are actually parting with their hard earned cash this holiday season even the catholic church has had to rely a little old fashioned charity to help staging its traditional st peter's basilica mass and costs for this year's more frugal nativity scene were mostly paid with donations in the eurozone artie's peter all of it has been looking at whether the wish list of those in charge are too much for even a high powered st nick to handle. it's a time of goodwill and giving and one particularly gent its busiest time of the sunset has taken a little bit of time out from delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me here and said. well if not come on the sled then i see.

where it's more comfortable you know keeping within the twenty first century that. you've got some letters from the boys and girls that you're going to share with us . ok all right now this one has come from a little boy in greece he says exactly what he wants for christmas and for twenty thirty. christmas i would really like a fiscal policy which would see my country's debt be reduced see one hundred twenty percent of annual output on twenty twenty i know that this is a big ask but it will stop the international money. getting fed more annoyed with us although we didn't make the whole thirty billion euros worth of savings we promised just recently we did try very hard. dimitri said marise. who else has been writing to you oh well this one has come from somebody not too far away from where we are right now this is come from a little girl and perlin with her christmas wishes for twenty thirty. thank

you for the positive economic growth i asked for last year it has been very helpful this year it would be great if we could have more of the same just is there a way we can give less of our money away to the eurozone countries all the best angle america p.s. i also want to win the general election next year thank you of course you get letters from little boys and girls from all over the world these drones just from here in europe produce this from us ones come from from paris from a little boy who says this well all of his famous friends keep running off and leaving him. it would be great if this new super rich followed gera deputy you and left fronts we really need a seventy five percent income taxes if we are to stay with the likes of angola and not find ourselves in the same trouble as demetrius thank you francois hollande.

oh right with this one comes from a little boy who has been on the naughty list in the past but he insists he's going to be good in the future something he is the thing i want to be prime minister again i know there were some problems last time however now i'm ready to step back in leave this lead to success quite possibly out of the you sincerely silvio berlusconi well we'll have to wait to see if their christmas wishes come true but santa did you get my letter yes was i on the nice list you're a minority list. peter all of a c. . and the christmas spirit is everywhere in britain as well flowing freely in the nation's pubs and restaurants but our summer training themselves to a bit too much the holiday cheer is lost on britain's police and hospital staff who

are working overtime sarah for brings us more from the streets of newcastle. well it's the season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little t. merry but the christmas spirit once again upon us brings awareness campaigns a warning people to be careful about how much they drink over the holiday period now in the last couple of years we've seen the figures increasing so the number of alcohol related injuries and we continue in the u.k. to pay too high a price for alcohol abuse now every year it's costing the n.h.s. and millions of pounds in dealing with the people who are coming three the hospitals and in the build up to christmas it really puts a strain on services such as the police and searches are ambulances now that's a very sobering thought indeed we've come to the north of england to new castle to go out on the town the views of a sensitive nature might want to look away now because we've been doing some people getting into the festive spirit to find out whether they're going to be drinking

responsibly plus a typical night in the car so. very. sorry but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with the underage drinking to feel that young people hitting responsibly. know. that hello no everyone just gets up the mall. over eighty thing that is good for stress. and. responsibly yeah yeah well sometimes i'm not but i. i'm not tonight because of the good night out with a drink response report on the order you heard tell me your school where you can also. see apart from these guys you will be a prophet and i've got to do what you want i have to get more responsible over the intro you know results soon people are over the age of twenty five not really both

. because the people that we've been speaking to here tonight have told us that the we canvassed. christmas they have a date nicknamed blackeye friday a reference to the number of fights the breakout hit excessive drinking this is why a campaign is a calling on the government to really tighten up the policies to make sure that we keep seeing these increases in alcohol abuse in the for the pot the government this year have really tried to target the sale of cheap alcohol campaign is a really calling on people to be very careful about how much they drink over the festive period. because the. south korea may have some very expensive toys heading its way from the u.s. this season the pentagon wants to sell a number of on many aircraft to seoul will have more on the international reaction later. people used to live in slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. showering them with

semantics later this hour we'll look at how politicians use language to mask what they're really intending to say after a short break. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing appreciation through the day.

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a little turn to angles the stories. you hear. the spanish find out more visit. thanks for staying with us here on r t eighteen minutes past the hour now the pentagon's propose supplying high altitude spy drones to south korea the deal for up to four pilotless aircraft still needs congressional approval and could be worth as much as one point two billion dollars analysts nile but we think the sale could seriously antagonize north korea which is sensitive to potential intrusion over its territory. if congress allows these drones to be sold to south korea what i think will happen is that they will use these drones to monitor the demilitarized zone so the south korean border they can also potentially be used to monitor north koreans

and north korea's nuclear facilities but we have to remember that north korea is one of many times but its territorial integrity so i think will happen is if south korean drones for example penetrate very airspace this could potentially start a huge conflict and if you look at the results of that latest offering elections the president will let him hey she can't be the model of. reaching. into the relations with north korea when we get easier but i think what this shows is that i purchased the these rooms are having the energy to at least the ruling party doesn't really have any plans to change its foreign policy to defeat any need for i don't think we're grateful to have anyone in this it's the first and we look at the ports being out of south korea or south korea and the scientists that will defeat satellites for you orbit around us we often cheat and reports say that the machining work done on the galaxy three missile that they watched was for food

safety what the real danger is and it is in north korea pursuing these tests and mistakingly you know having seen debris from on china or through look easy or stuff where you're japan and germany what people want intention. double talk to scientists dress up reality in the sound bites easily digested by the public has become the default language of the world political elite r.t.m. radio porton i looks at whether u.s. voters are willing to read between the lines to work out what politicians are really saying. the art of politics is made up of many things. handshakes smiles and a good arsenal of verbal camouflage the americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality americans have trouble facing the truth or as the elite american comedian george carlin put it euphemistically language that conceals reality poor people used to live in the slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. and their her.

they don't have a negative cash flow position. and today america's love affair with semantics has given birth to a new phrase to describe the rich job creators in america basically are on strike increasing taxes on job creators this administration and this president policies are hostile to job creators that are just saying the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand a year if you say a job creator they say well we can raise their taxes the other ones are create jobs when in reality when their taxes are higher under bill clinton three times as many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stretched to its absolute peak and maximum can't take anymore and puts the nervous system has either snapped or is

about to snap in the first world war that condition was called show today this same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any emotion post-traumatic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes post-traumatic stress disorder those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. when it comes to war where you have the most damaging euphemisms like when and so saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say there was collateral damage collateral that. which is to me the worst it's very you know it's innocent men women and children were killed in the collateral damage so that a real estate transaction out like soldiers shooting each other has become known as friendly fire kidnapping and transferring terrorist suspect is called extraordinary rendition and the torture america's war prisoners might endure is referred to as enhanced interrogation in most cases these new words are used by people who try to define an argument or frame it in

a way that will support the position that they're advocating and during the last u.s. presidential election a certain demographic of voters became otherwise known as without low information voters bother went to twitter at two o'clock today to encourage low information voters think low information voters are stupid people but you say low information voters because it sounds nice although in their defense it could be people who are just too busy you know with their lives or family in their work that they don't have time to focus on the election until the very last minute and then they vote based on the hairstyle of the candidate running for president as america's political elites continues creating new vocabulary to soften the hard truth a greater focus could instead be put into asking why so many issues need to be rephrased before being presented to the public george carlin created comedy about the strategy but it was george orwell who first coined a term for it newspeak reporting from new york. r.t. . turning now to some other stories making global headlines

a military aircraft crash in southern kazakstan killing all twenty seven people aboard the acting head of the countries of the order guards was on the flight which is also thought to have been carrying other high ranking military personnel the plane took off from the capital astana just came and came down just twenty kilometers shy of its destination near the city of shame can local media reports the pilots were trying to make an alert emergency landing the exact cause of the crash is unknown and investigations underway. police involved. rainn used tear gas at anti-government protesters continuing an intense crackdown on public gatherings demonstrators demand the prime minister resign and a democratically elected government step in they also want the release of human rights campaigner saeed yousef who was jailed earlier this month for writing about the crackdown on twitter is comes as the country's wrapping up a gulf economic and military summit. eleven preschool children in china have been killed in

a bus accident the principal behind the wheel of the vehicle when it plunged into a pond she's been arrested on suspicious of reckless driving over and driving and overloading the bus a kindergarten also faces closure as it was found to be operating without a license. and a syrian rebels claim to have captured a small town near the turkish border government forces surrendered after weeks of heavy fighting opposition fighters now control large parts of the north of the country after seizing three major military bases and attack is now underway on a fourth base. let me start to say goodbye to the year two thousand and twelve our team is looking back at the year and what it brought us all today are news teams recall the austerity anger that took hold across europe this year.

it came to the point where if you walked into the studio you knew there was going to be a story about europe and austerity and protests and riots whether it would be spain or greece or even the u.k. and these were real people in real situations in very scary situations and our correspondents were out there in the midst of it all. so we. still it's over some type of square and i just see the camera around behind the camera everybody else around me putting just must on you for moscow going to see your lights before you can say anything you get that horrible taste in your mouth and of course it's the tear gas that's become so synonymous with these demonstrations in greece along with the firing of molotov cocktails and clashes with the place the producers like to see their correspondents in the middle of a crowd which is great but then the crowd shouting correspondents try to speak out everyone's very loud you can't hear anything that makes for good television. it's

an incredible event covering it is pretty exciting you've got political elements you use the elements of news on the court force you've got the tragic human stories of people who are driven to desperation and pushed onto the streets to protest what they see is their livelihood just the way over to iraq this must. pull people to think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures especially amongst the young about the cost of the stakes the study says and then you really get a sense of just how angry how desperate people take we get the full of love that's doing to the country and so yes it's not in the middle of one of these big protest movements when the clashes break out. that's the hours news after a short break argue james brown learns how to stage a traditional russian ball and then travel to switzerland to test his dancing chops stay with us.

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